The KDE project has released the first release candidate for KDE 4.2. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cilense", (a.k.a. KDE 4.2 Release Candidate), the only planned release candidate for the KDE 4.2 desktop. Cilense is aimed at testers and reviewers. It should provide a solid ground to report last-minute bugs that need to be tackled before KDE 4.2.0 is released. Reviewers can use this release candidate to get a first look at the upcoming KDE 4.2 desktop which provides significant improvements all over the desktop and applications. It is not recommended for everyday use, however."
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The version will be "alpha 2" instead of "beta 1". I guess that the reason is that it cannot be used to upgrade a 2009.0:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Alpha_2
Tom
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2005-08-06
For those of you who are eager to try out the new KDE in your Debian SID + Experimental box (I suppose you already have KDE 4.1 from Experimental), there's an unofficial Debian repository at http://kde42.debian.net/ hosting svn builds of kde trunk. Those packages are built by the Debian KDE packaging team.
Instructions to install the packages are given on the page. The repository will be updated until KDE 4.2 is released, at this point it is very likely KDE 4.2 will go into Experimental.
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2006-01-22
Fedora 10 + KDE 4.2 RC LiveCD Torrent:
http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
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You're loss.
I personally find it very stable and love the freedom the features provide.
Perhaps if you actually tried KDE4.x before commenting, you might realise how grossly inaccurate your comments are.
Edited 2009-01-17 15:19 UTC
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Unlike the OP - that somehow takes pride in not trying KDE 4.x before commenting, I'm currently using KDE 4.2RC1 (Fedora RPMs from the KDE Packaging project) and thus far, I've yet to experience problems / bugs / crashes. (Beyond one or two minor issues.)
While I still miss a couple of KDE 3.5.x features, compared to KDE 4.2 on my Fedora 10, KDE 3.5.10 on my CentOS 5.2 machine does look outdated and missing a number of useful features. (E.g. Multiple folder separate views per desktop, krunner is better than katapult, etc)
- Gilboa
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2007-06-02
Setec, yes, you are right, GNOME was not dropped because of UI but because of what you said... the heavy work load, I myself would have dropped it. I understand your view on the desktop concept, I may reply this later, because right now I have my wife talking & talking at my ears, I can't do both things. LOL
Oh, I still find very irritating that I have to install almost the entire KDE3 to have K3b working! I think KDE3 should do the move to KDE4 just like KDE2 did to KDE3. Smooth.